Teacher Registry
Surprise!
Jocelyn
Jocelyn Gordon is a HOOPNOTICA® Master Trainer and Arlington based Integrative Movement Expert. She uses her natural gifts and integrative training – Massage, Yoga and Dance Therapies - to help students connect to joy, and shift from inhibited expression to authentic movement. "I Hoop Dance because it's joyful and meditative. I teach Hoop Dance because it brings people together and it helps "non-dancers" find their unique flow and inner rhythm. Jocelyn is available for private and group instruction.
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“Surprise! (aka Katie Desmond) has been spreading her love and joy of hooping for over six years. A California native, she has wowed audiences across the United States with her campy, fun and theatrical style of hoop and fire dance. In 2009, she was nominated for Fire Hooper of the Year by Hooping.org. Katie is a licensed HoopGirl Level 1 teacher who believes that she can teach anyone to hoop.
Drex
Ben Drexler began his performance career as a touring musician before moving out east to find fame and fortune in human rights activism with the Genocide Intervention Network. He thought he was uncoordinated most of his life until he picked up poi and hasn’t been able to put them down since. He is completely self-taught in poi, rope dart, hoop, and meteor hammer, but that hasn’t stopped him from performing in fire shows all over the country and sharing a stage with some of the modern greats of object manipulation and juggling. When he isn’t working or devouring books on physics, he performs regularly with the Playa Del Fuego Fire Conclave, Dance Afire, and New York Sparkworks. He doesn’t sleep much.
Noelle Powers (aka Strange Powers)
Noelle Powers (aka Strange Powers & Hooping Powers) has an extensive background in various forms of dance ranging from tap and modern to club and improvisation. She divides her hoop-time between a playful personal practice, instructing classes, crafting hand-made hoops, and performing her radical style of hoopdance at various venues & community events. Over the last few years, Powers has been fundamental in bringing the modern hoola hooping revolution to the DC-Baltimore regions. Noelle describes hooping as a superb form of meditation, full-body fitness, brain stimulation, good mood-making, and community-building. Check out her site!
Granetta Coleman
Granetta is a HOOPNOTICA® certified instructor. She is also a Certified Group Exercise Instructor and Personal Trainer with the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. Granetta has been teaching group exercise classes for 5 years and has danced, competed in gymnastics and enjoyed all types of fitness activities her whole life. In addition, Granetta is a Massage Therapist licensed in Washington, DC. For more information, go to her website:
Shanna Tova O'Reilly
Shanna Tova O’Reilly is a Hoopnotica certified instructor. She has formal training in dance and gymnastics, and has been a practicing yoga and hoop artist since 2007. She enjoys helping people discover their natural sense of rhythm through hoopdance.
Kym Laird
Kym was an instant hoop addict who now spreads the craving to others. Using her background in fitness, she highlights the benefits of hooping in classes for students of all levels. A self professed klutz, she found a grace and energy through hooping that she never thought was there - and knows that there is a hoop super star waiting inside everyone! Through performance and teaching Kym highlights the transformative power of the hoop over the body, mind and spirit. She welcomes anyone to grab a hoop and get ready to smile and sweat! She currently teaches at Body Dynamics in Ariington, VA
Shanna teaches private and group lessons to a variety of audiences including adults, children and entertainers. She finds hooping to be meditative, playful, sexy, and a great way to share and just have fun! Contact her at shannatova@gmail.com for information about current and upcoming classes at Studio Serenity, the Jewish Community Center (JCC) and other convenient locations in the greater Washington, DC area.
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